How It Was Recorded

Sheryl Crow · Album, 1996

Sheryl Crow

This is an album-level record: the sources describe how the album as a whole was recorded, not one song. Where a detail belongs to a single song, the row says so.

Songs this record stands for: A Change Would Do You Good, Everyday Is a Winding Road, If It Makes You Happy. We found nothing specific to these songs, so this album record is the closest account we have.

Lead vocalGuitarsKeyboardsReported8

What the sources do and do not say

One Sound On Sound career profile read in full; it covers the album's Kingsway sessions with Trina Shoemaker but says almost nothing about the recording of this song itself (only its writing and Jeff Trott's guitar work, with no gear named). All rows are album-level and reported, as the journalist narrates them. Mic choices for the keys, drums and bass are not given for this song.

Lead vocal

Sheryl Crow

Microphone

Sony C37A

Reported

Chosen vocal microphone for Crow's control-room vocals on the album sessions, after trying a U47; its pop-screen coped with her volume so she could sing close.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. Microphone-modelling plugins only work with their own matched hardware microphone, so there is no plugin to link. Placement and the room matter more than the model.

Neumann U 47

Reported

Tried as a vocal microphone during the album sessions but passed over in favour of the Sony C37A.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. Microphone-modelling plugins only work with their own matched hardware microphone, so there is no plugin to link. Placement and the room matter more than the model.

Guitars

Sheryl Crow

Amplifier

Fender Tweed amplifier (model not stated)

Reported

Amp most often used for the electric guitars on the album sessions.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

Covers this kind of unit

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amp and cabinet simulator

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Microphone

Neumann U 47

Reported

One of three microphones used on acoustic guitar parts across the album sessions.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. Microphone-modelling plugins only work with their own matched hardware microphone, so there is no plugin to link. Placement and the room matter more than the model.

AKG C 12

Reported

One of three microphones used on acoustic guitar parts across the album sessions.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. Microphone-modelling plugins only work with their own matched hardware microphone, so there is no plugin to link. Placement and the room matter more than the model.

Sennheiser MD 421

Reported

One of three microphones used on acoustic guitar parts across the album sessions; the text writes it only as 421.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. Microphone-modelling plugins only work with their own matched hardware microphone, so there is no plugin to link. Placement and the room matter more than the model. The MD 421 is still made.

Keyboards

Instrument

Wurlitzer Electric piano (model not stated)

Reported

Among the rental gear from Nashville that the engineer arranged to bring in for the sessions; the text does not say what it played.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

Emulation of this unit

Arturia Wurli V

instrument

Physical model of the Wurlitzer 200A electric piano. The source does not give the model used.

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Hammond B3

Reported

Among the rental gear from Nashville that the engineer arranged to bring in for the sessions; the text does not say what it played.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

Emulation of this unit

Arturia B-3 V

instrument

A model of the Hammond B-3 with a Leslie speaker. The C-3 is the same organ in a different cabinet.

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Also worth a look: IK Multimedia Hammond B-3X (Made with Hammond as a model of the B-3).

Sources

  1. The Crow Road: Sheryl Crow & Her Producers, Sound On Sound, 2003-04. Accessed 15 Nov 2026.
Verified

Stated by the engineer, producer or artist, or by the manufacturer.

Reported

Stated by a reputable secondary source.

Inferred

An educated suggestion, not a documented fact.

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